Related Projects
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These are all actually in the same package (``setuptools``):

* `setuptools <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools>`_
  for generation of packages.

* `easy_install
  <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall>`_ for
  installation of packages (``easy_install`` is a kind of front-end
  for setuptools, and Python software installation in general).

* `Python Eggs <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs>`_
  for introspection of packages and general "pluggability".
  (``setuptools`` creates and installs Eggs)

Other packages are used in Paste, and development may bleed into those
projects.  Though you don't have to use those projects to use Paste or
to have a Paste-enabled package, I think these are quality tools that
form a more complete development experience:

* `Subversion <http://subversion.tigris.org/>`_ for version control.

* `buildutils <http://buildutils.lesscode.org>`_ for some common
  maintenance tasks.

* `Pudge <http://pudge.lesscode.org>`_ for documentation generation
  (at least this website is generated using Pudge).

* `py.test <http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html>`_ for
  testing.  ``paste.fixture`` is entirely usable from within `unittest
  <http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-unittest.html>`_, but the
  experience is more streamlined in ``py.test``.

* `INITools <http://pythonpaste.org/initools/>`_ for .INI-file
  parsing.  Paste only partially uses this package, but probably will
  more in the future.

* `Cheetah <http://cheetahtemplate.org>`_ for file generation,
  especially generating startup file layouts and configuration files.